The cabinet reshuffle announced late Sunday would see four women in Sierra Leone’s Cabinet for the first time.

Diana Finda Konomanyi, former local government minister, is now Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment.

Nanette Thomas, 60, who is shown at an attitude and behavior rally announced by President Koroma during his first term, is now Minister of Political Affairs and Public Affairs.

Onetime All People’s Congress party women’s leader, Elizabeth Mans, 56, (pictured left) is Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister, while Sylvia Blyden, 44, (lead photo) will become social welfare minister following the departure of Moijeuh Kaikai and his deputy, Mustapha Bai Attila, after a bitter row.

Checkout Full Pres release below:

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT IN REVIEWING THE OVERALL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE, IT HAS PLEASED HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING MINISTERIAL, AMBASSADORIAL, STATUTORY AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF PARLIAMENT WHERE NECESSARY:

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Mohamed A. N. FodayMarch 14, 2016 at 4:21 pm

Some of the appointed ministers and deputies, ambassadors and other appointees are mere compensation for being very loyal to APC and for being thugs, but most of them are not competent at all. Besides, bunch of them have serious stained character…. Oh God come down and help Mama Salone, land that we love….

AhmadMarch 15, 2016 at 1:43 am

that’s good papa of saline job well done sir congratulated

Aiah SodengbeMarch 15, 2016 at 4:46 am

President Bye Bye Koroma is “World’s best President” and now “Sylvia Magomago DUCUMU Blyden is Bye Bye’s best appointment made during his almost 10 years in office” are phrases coined by APC loyalists or say APC party faithfuls. As the saying goes, even the devil has friends.

I beg to differ from these ill-thoughts and propaganda statements. Bye Bye is a failed leader on borrowed ropes and Sylvia is a failed watermelon politician.
Ministerial appointments generally brings in some excitement, irrespective of the government in office. We have seen it with Johnny Paul’s brief sting & Essegrabo’s hullabaloo. Such excitements normally disappear before the details of the subjects are pencilled down.

This particular reshuffle has raised eye brows on some appointees and the hasty nature. It makes me wonder whether President Koroma considered conducting a dynamic risk management or primary investigation on the likes of Sylvia Magomago Blyden of all people. Also, the appointment of the fly-by-night politician Mohamed Bangura & Christian Thorpe must be rejected if the Rule of Law is to be respected in Sierra Leone, though farfetched.

Magomago DUCUMU as she is commonly known by people of her class, has been running a seedy tabloid in Freetown. Over the years, her often outlandish opinions expressed rudely & sometimes with bizarre profanity has not gone down well with most Sierra Leoneans. Such conduct, though self inflicted, has indeed cause her incalculable damage over the years. For heavens sake, why appoint this lady considering her sloppy and belligerent attitude to state officials in the past??? Is it really pay back time?

The integrity of government Ministers must be commensurate to their respective Ministries If our country is to progress.